Bizkit binned by label

Low sales of Gold Cobra get band dropped – but Durst says being unsigned band is best thing for them


Limp Bizkit have been dropped by record label Interscope after their comeback album yielded disappointing sales.

Gold Cobra was their first release in over six years and featured the return of wayward guitarist Wes Borland.

Despite strong anticipation it hasn’t lived up to expectations – but frontman Fred Durst says the band were right to do things their way.

He tells Poolside With Dean Delray: “It was a record for us to do for ourselves, for core faces, for some of the people we know in the industry.

“It wasn’t our step forward to make a big, pop, smash radio record. We didn’t want to make that record at that time. We’ve been working to re-navigate where we’re going to take Limp Bizkit.

“Finally we have been able to get off our label and become independent.”

Durst maintains the band’s future is in no danger, and they’ll return to the studio on their own terms at some point in the future. Meanwhile they’re planning to steer clear of their home nation for a good deal of the time.

“We do very, very good on our touring,” the frontman reports. “We mainly tour outside the United States. It seems like inside they’re waiting on a hit and the rest of the world doesn’t operate that way.

“So I’m waiting until we can really give them something they can sink their teeth into and then they can be reminded about how ill Limp Bizkit is live.”